Risk of coronary heart disease in patients with periodontitis among the middled-aged and elderly in China: a cohort study

• Main Authors: Kaikai Gao (Author), Zhiyuan Wu (Author), Yue Liu (Author), Lixin Tao (Author), Yanxia Luo (Author), Xinghua Yang (Author), Jingbo Zhang (Author), Xiuhua Guo (Author), Songlin Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Convincing evidence of the periodontitis as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) is lacking due to shared risk factors, and no cohort study has investigated the association between CHD and periodontitis in Chinese populations. Methods This study used a prospective cohor...